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True Tales of Hands-on Hacks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the necessity's-a-mother dept.

PCM2 writes "InfoWorld is running a fun special report offering true tales of "enterprise hacks" -- real-world folks and how they solved IT problems in unorthodox ways. Can you beat the story about the tech who hacked a USB switch with a timer to bridge two air-gapped networks? Or the one who used Wi-Fi to track a missing tool cart? What's your proudest hack?" It's in PDF, but freely downloadable.

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  1. Wireless PDA theft by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I tracked down a student who stole a wireless-equipped PDA at our University. Stolen machines are usually reported to us, so that we can monitor the DHCP server for their MAC address in case a clueless thief tries to bring them back on campus. In this case, he didn't turn the PDA off, so it left a nice trail in the RADIUS server of his movements for the next two hours as he roamed around different campus access points. Since the log showed the time that the PDA left that area, the police were able to track back who had access to those areas at that time of day (it was after hours) and eventually recovered that PDA plus a few older models from a new student custodian. :)

  2. This one time... by Recovering+Hater · · Score: 5, Funny

    This one time in band camp- I used an unorthodox body part to power a flute.

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